Suntech announces bond default, financing search

Published March 18, 2013 1:19pm ET



BEIJING (AP) — One of the world’s biggest solar panel manufacturers, Suntech, says it has defaulted on $541 million in payments to bondholders after a downturn battered the global industry.

The announcement Monday by Suntech Power Holdings Ltd. was a severe setback for one of the renewable energy industry’s most successful companies.

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